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Teachers Social Network (TSN) has the same concept as the ever popular Facebook. Teachers can create a free account, and begin chatting with other professionals about important issues or ask for help concerning a certain lesson plan. This website meets standard 6.4 because the information one obtains from chatting with other teachers is integrating technology into his/hers own learning process and is very likely to influence their teaching habits or change their current educational practices. Overall, this website is a good tool to get ideas and answers from fellow teachers.

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Do2learn provides thousands of pages of social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills.

Apples4theteacher.com, offers interactive educational activities and online games for teachers and students. Educational games are categorized by subject - Language Arts online games, online Spanish games, online Science games, Social Studies educational activities, Educational Math games, Foreign Language interactive games, Creative Arts and Crafts - counting, measuring, Presidents, Irish Symbols, map of US, countries, animal classification, human body book, alphabetize a list of words, word magnets, tangrams, puzzles, Dr. Seuss puzzles, Presidential trivia.

This website has fun interactive activities for all grade levels. It also contains activities for teachers to use with SmartBoards, Promethean Boards, etc. It encompasses all subject areas including math, science, social studies, language arts, and Spanish.

This website is full of information regarding the proper usage of technology for children. Children use social technology on a daily basis for communication, homework projects, surfing the web, and etc. I chose this website because it displays the rights and the responsibilities of minors and the importance of protecting them while they are surfing the web. As teachers we want our students to make good choices when it comes to the use of technology. This website include other links such as "Stop Cyberbullying" that can be used to teach young people about internet safety.

I find the history channel website to be very useful for history teachers. It has videos on most historical events, games for students to play that are relevant to subjects in history and social studies. It could also be used as good source for students when doing research projects and paper. A great icebreaker for teachers to use is "This Day in History."

Education.com is an education and child development site for parents, but can be very useful for teachers as well. It has grade specific information for all grades such as social, emotional, and academic development for the children, and it has links to worksheets and activities.

My homework now is a website where teahcers can communicate with students and parents through facebook, twitter, apple and android, and other different social sites about homework and what is happening in the classroom through this all in one website.

This social bookmarking site is a good example of an emerging resource for teachers.

Sweet Search is a search engine designed for students who are researching anything their minds think of!! When you go to the homepage for Sweet Search, it gives you other search engine links that can specifically target your goal. Some of these include links for social study content, biographies, how to use the web effectively, etc. Our librarians really promote this website and encourage the students to use this search engine when they are researching.

This site corresponds with 6.8

This website is a free social networking site that allows teachers and students to engage in collaborative projects and learning assignments with others from around the world. Teachers can set up virtual classrooms and grant their students monitored e-mail accounts, with parental permission of course, in order for them to interact with other students from all over the globe. For instance, while studying about the rain forest the class may connect with another classroom that lives in the rain forest. This website also allows the teacher to involve parents in the process of learning by adding them to the class network. Parents can monitor their child's academic progress and also receive the classroom newsletter. One aspect about the website that is extremely helpful is the translation tool. This allows teachers the opportunity to have conversations with parents in their native language.

This site has links specific to teaching history, social studies, geography. It has links to lesson plans, current news portals, research content, interactive time lines and most anything to do with teaching history. Endless resources for teachers and students alike. There is also a link available to send suggestions and was featured by the New York Times.

Candidates use technology to effectively communicate with students, parents, and colleagues.

Parenting wired kids can be difficult, especially if you didn't grow up with the same technologies. These resources can help. Explore topics such as cyberbullying and social networking with our free collection of online videos. Through animations and real-life stories, NetSmartz can help you better protect your children while they're online.

This blog offers information on copyright, creative commons, fair use, among other things.